"ERGENEKON NETWORK EXACERBATES ANTI-AMERICANISM IN TURKEY
By Emrullah Uslu
Thursday, November 13, 2008
The reading of the 2,455-page indictment against 86 suspects in the first trial against Ergenekon, a criminal network accused of plotting to overthrow the government, was completed at the trial's 11th hearing. When the process of reading the indictment ended, suspects started giving testimony in their defense. The first of 86 defendants to testify was Oktay Yildirim, a retired noncommissioned army officer with alleged links to the 200 discovery of 27 7 hand grenades inside a house used as an arms depot in Istanbul’s Umraniye district. Despite the fact that Yildirim’s fingerprints were found on the box in which the 27 hand grenades stored, he claimed that neither he nor his lawyer had seen the hand grenades in the Umraniye house (Today’s Zaman, November 12)."
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